 Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in. I talked to many new gun owners. Actually many new gun owners seek me out I get contacted by them and they ask for advice and as I talk to them many of them have Ideas which is good. We should be thinking about what our first gun purchase would be the best choice for us individually but as I spoke with this young man just recently he said I'm thinking about getting an LCP I want a Ruger LCP because it's really small and I watch videos I Read reviews and it's a great gun and I'm going with that. I'm like, so you're really not asking advice You're asking for confirmation and I think if you're going to get a first time Gun then that is not a good choice He said what do you mean? I said, what do you plan to use that gun for? Well, if I ever get my carry permit I could carry it and I'll use it for home defense I said, you're gonna use a Ruger LCP for home defense as your first gun He said, yeah, I think that's a great way to go because I want something really small So it would be convenient and I'm really not comfortable with something that is much larger than that Now I understand the need to be comfortable. All right. It's it's important to be comfortable But what I've lost patience for are people who live their lives to be comfortable It seems like if if something makes somebody uncomfortable Then everything else has to change All right We just the thought of being uncomfortable in today's world is an outrage. Therefore everything has to change My dad told me a long time ago. He said son never say that you're uncomfortable because nobody cares All right. Life isn't always comfortable. Life isn't always convenient. Life isn't always satisfying All right, but that's separate just a little rant I have about the whole comfort thing I said, you know what brings me comfort is When I go to the range and I shoot at my target and I actually hit my target Try that with your LCP as a first-time gun owner. Have you shot many handguns? He said no All right, and so you're going to get this LCP and you're going to shoot it This has a two point seven five inch barrel. All right. How accurate do you think you're going to be? Well, most self-defense situations are three feet away I'm not buying it guys. I'm not buying it somebody kicks in your door and you're Over by the bedroom and that front door is 10 12 15 feet away And you need to make that shot you better be accurate And if you're a first-time gun owner with a little gun like this, you're going to struggle So my advice for the first-time gun owner is get a compact size gun This person said they wanted a Ruger. I said, that's great You know, you can get a Ruger security nine. They're not a lot of money Holds 15 rounds. It's got a four-inch barrel and you will be able to shoot more accurate with it With a compact size gun as a first-time gun owner. We're talking inexperienced people The recoil is less the capacity is more and the confidence will grow the better that You shoot it and the more you practice and so forth. There are so many more benefits plus you're looking at a 380 Which is the LCP-2 he wanted to get versus a 9 millimeter And this made no sense. He's I don't know if I'm comfortable. I said nothing enough about this comfortable bit When when you shoot at a target and you actually hit the target, that's comfortable Alright, when you shoot the LCP as a first-time gun owner, I remind you it is a struggle And so we see these first-time gun owners. They have all these ideas. They even have ideas on self-defense Well, this is how I plan to handle it now I can relate to that because when I first started getting into all this I had all these ideas But the more experience I got the more research I did the more people I spoke with and the more training Classes that I took I learned that my original ideas were way off And I had to change Whether I was comfortable with them or not I had to change because the reality is criminals do not make appointments They they do not tell you their strategy You have to adjust to your situation and if you have a little gun that you do not shoot well Then you're you're you could be in big-time trouble Okay, despite what your ideas are and so as I'm talking to these guys kind of looking at me like, you know I'm really not buying what you're saying and that's fine. You don't have to I'm just a guy Who you happen to ask advice to but I'm giving you my advice So many times first-time gun owners want the most convenient little Gun and they think that's going to be the be all do everything firearm for them including home defense including carry including everything but they want the least amount of uncomfortableness and the least amount of size which is the exact Opposite of what new gun owners should try to achieve. They should try to achieve accuracy capacity Low recoil get comfortable with it and then after you gain that experience and you want something like an LCP Then that that would be in my opinion Satisfactory, but it's getting that experience you you realize you cannot you cannot replace experience You can replace your ideas You can replace other things, but when it comes to experience You actually have to go through that process to get that experience and if you're not willing to do that Then you're off track and you're gonna find yourself coming back a month later and say, you know, you're right What's that gun you mentioned again? Because I think that's the one I should have gone with They also want to go with the cheapest price. I get that everybody has a budget I'm not here to say that you need to go spend eight hundred dollars on a gun but When you consider how much your life is worth perhaps, you know, maybe $150 gun may not be the way to go I mean just Dan here speaking, but that's just that's just my thoughts But new gun owners they make a lot of mistakes when they want to choose their first gun It has to do with comfortableness Because they want the smallest one possible and that's gonna get the job done when in fact against a Hardened criminal who is well experienced You're probably you may not fair out too well Those are just my thoughts consider your ideas, but also be willing to learn other people's ideas who actually have Experience if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe